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According to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), two years after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, as many as 6.5 million Ukrainians are refugees, while another 3.7 million people are internally [...]

Starting in the 1970s neoliberalism began to undermine and chisel away at liberalism, taking aim at the social wage. By the twenty-first century this had resulted in a structural crisis of overaccumulation and a political crisis of legitimacy as social dislocation and precarity became prevalent. The war in Iraq created through war and reconstruction new spaces for accumulation. The invasion and occupation were premised on and worked to maintain anti-Muslim racism in order to scaffold legitimacy for a neoliberal state that is hollowed out of its previous liberal promises. No longer offering a social wage, this becomes the affective wages of neoliberalism, premised on the reification of ontological difference between a civilized, humane and rational West, and a fundamentally illiberal Muslim other. At the same time that liberalism is eroded by neoliberalism, the latter draws from and reinforces the liberal logic of deflection manifest in frontier logics. Keywords: neoliberalism, liberalism, Iraq War, anti-Muslim racism, capitalism, And we go forward with confidence, because this call of history has come to the right country.... The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world; it is [...]

Dr. Jacqueline S. Ismael (born in Chicago, Illinois), was a distinguished political sociologist and advocate for social justice. She was an esteemed member of the Faculty of Social Work at [...]

This essay proposes a reading of Georges Franju's Eyes Without a Face that focuses on the cultural and philosophical contexts of the face, its destruction, and imagined reconstruction in postwar [...]

This article examines the formative role of the World War II experience in shaping politically relevant memories in postwar Italy. Rather than considering the past a legacy or a heritage--something abstract, malleable and susceptible to serving political interests--the focus here is on the meaning-giving power of memories and symbols in the historical evolution. The birth of Italian democracy after the war was preceded by disruptive events that could have divided the nation. This article illustrates how contested and fragmented interpretations of critical events were structured by and through the dimension of cultural memory, which sustained social and political imaginations, eventually shaping characters and outcomes of the Italian political transformation., The birth of democracy in Italy after World War II was preceded by disruptive historical events that potentially could have divided the nation and jeopardized its political transformation. Fascism had [...]

Peace begins when people find violence the worst threat of all. With this, the fears and beliefs in force wane and support for violent solutions withers as a search for creative non-aggressive solutions waxes. This isn't merely a political process. It is forged in the center of daily life. It is carried through simple conversations and philosophical debates; crafted in art and reproduced in music; relayed in folktales and honed in literature. (Nordstrom 2004:181), The eleven-year civil war in Sierra Leone (1991-2002) and its aftermath have brought about sociocultural and economic transformations that, we argue, can best be understood through the prism of everyday [...]

The processes of transitional justice and social reconstruction aim to repair the social elements of a society. Countries devise mechanisms for handling past and current human rights violations. The manner in which these kinds of mechanisms have been used in addressing such crimes as well as the appropriate order in which these mechanisms should be used is considered here. A myriad of mechanisms have been applied to the case of Uganda and are examined., Introduction The processes of transitional justice and social reconstruction aim, broadly, to repair the social elements of a society. As I have written elsewhere, "transitional justice is engaged in helping [...]

What do critics mean when they use the phrase post-recovery? It is a paradoxical term in many ways--valid, because we have moved so far beyond the simple recovery of forgotten [...]

CONTENTS I Introduction II Compliance III Constitution IV Critique V Counter VI Tallies, To-Dos I INTRODUCTION In its very first issue, the Foreword to the Melbourne Journal of International Law [...]

Auxilio Social became the main welfare institution in Franco's Spain in which poor women and children, mostly belonging to the 'vanquished' in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), were assisted by [...]

ABSTRACT The community of academic geographers in Israel is tiny compared to countries with which Israeli geographers have close contacts, with around half this small contingent--around 60 people in all […]

Regression analysis of households and basic infrastructure survey was employed in order to analyze lower to middle socio-economic districts and determine macro-structural relationships. A comparative analysis of the post-war reconstruction of San Salvador and Central American cities is presented.

ABSTRACT During the Second Intifada, Israel started to construct a separation barrier, officially aimed at preventing Palestinian terrorists from penetrating into its territory. Previous Palestinian attacks caused the death and […]

Background In April 1945, with the end of World War II in sight, representatives from fifty nations came together in San Francisco to create a constitution for what would become [...]